| People are always looking for technology | | | | landscaping and spend many hours caring for |
| innovations that will make their life easier, more | | | | thousands of dollars of bushes and plants. Any |
| comfortable, or provide a bit more predictability | | | | realtor will tell you that flourishing landscaping |
| to their daily events. One innovation that holds | | | | plants add significant value to your property. |
| promise for doing exactly that are backyard | | | | Weather knowledge is about saving money, too. |
| weather stations. | | | | Outdoor home improvement activities like painting, |
| Not so many years ago a high-tech backyard | | | | roof work, masonry, and concrete are highly |
| weather station might consist of a weather vane, | | | | dependent on favorable weather conditions. For a |
| a barometer, and a rain gauge. Today's | | | | small independent contractor in the construction |
| technology can provide you with a wireless | | | | business having a better than your average |
| weather station that monitors so much more | | | | weatherman handle on upcoming weather events |
| critical information like soil moisture and leaf | | | | could mean the difference between the success |
| wetness, among other things, and then wirelessly | | | | and failure of his business. He cannot afford to do |
| transmits the data to your computer where you | | | | every job twice - and out of his own pocket. |
| can track, graph and analyze historical data. | | | | Construction materials ruined by weather are |
| Today's weather stations have sensors that can | | | | costly to replace, especially for homeowners who |
| detect important weather variables such as daily | | | | have nobody else to look to for leaving them out |
| highs and lows, temperature changes by the hour, | | | | and exposed to the weather. |
| barometric changes, and windspeed and direction | | | | If you're planning a big outdoor event like a |
| for any time of the day, along with humidity. If | | | | barbecue or a pool party you would probably like |
| you live in a hgh wind zone be assured that the | | | | to have more solid information than an eye to |
| best outdoor units are built to withstand wind | | | | the sky and a finger in the air. How much more |
| speeds up to 150 mph. They can wirelessly send | | | | important would it be if you were planning an |
| the data every couple seconds up to 1000 ft. | | | | outdoor wedding for tomorrow? Maybe you will |
| away to an indoor console. The indoor console | | | | be able to save a few hundred dollars on those |
| also collects data for the indoor temperature and | | | | rain canopies because you know you will not need |
| humidity and interfaces with your computer. | | | | them, or maybe now you know you are going to |
| So what can you do with his data? Everybody | | | | have to dig a little deeper to come up with the |
| with a garden wants to know what to expect in | | | | extra money to pay for them. |
| weather conditions over the next several days or | | | | Not everybody needs to our wants to be a |
| even how this particular day of the year has | | | | weather nut but for those people to whom |
| panned out weather-wise in the recent past. High | | | | today's and tomorrow's weather mean |
| winds dry soil quickly. Frost or below normal | | | | everything, high technology backyard weather |
| temperatures could devastate exotic plants. | | | | stations can provide it all. |
| Some homeowners take great pride in their | | | | |